02/05/2023

None of the texts that were collated as authentically inspired by the Holy Spirit were dated by their writers except by reference to Roman and Temple officials. Some of Paul's letters are the earliest texts. St John's Gospel is his memoir of the time he spent with Jesus. It was written some fifty years after the Resurrection and was inspired to summarise all the teaching of Jesus within the the revelations made to the Chosen People and contained in the rolls of scripture proclaimed, translated and explained in both Temple and Synagogue.

The only reason that Jews came to accept Jesus' New Covenant was the Resurrection. The Apostles and converted continued to worship in the Temple and daily faced the problem of accepting Gentiles as members of their new Synagogue. They had the Scrolls to refer to but there were no other texts recording the teaching of Jesus by word and deed until Paul's pastoral letters to the mainly Greeks of Asia Minor. Those letters had been informed by the Holy Spirit and Paul's questioning of the, at first, highly suspicious apostles and direct disciples.

The Resurrection was IAMIAM stopping each one, who witnessed the Living Lord, in the timeline of his life to be the point after which nothing could be the same. They lived their new life in a community of love, prayer and reflection. They all knew that the One True God, the All Powerful had lead them out of Slavery to the Law.The Apostles who had been with Jesus, their Rabbi, preached what they had heard and bore witness to what they had seen.

Since those first days millions of us have sought to live lives obedient to the Love with which we were created. In the first days of the Church there were endless arguments about the Truth and words that  Jesus had preached but for the strict monotheist nothing could have been more difficult than "The Father and I are one"recalled some fifty years after the event by the disciple who had stayed with Jesus to the end and then taken on responsibility of caring for Theotokos till she returned to her Son but now in Heaven.

Dear Lord, let me always try to find the Truth in everything that has been saved by your Church as inspired by you. May Mary continue to be the Mother of your faithful and guide your Church against  sinful pride and greed. May my heart be open to receive the grace that will keep me free from sin and may all our souls on earth be united with the Holy Souls in Purgatory in penance for our failures and dishonesty.